A new study found that both natural and synthetic gum shed microplastics, with each piece of gum producing about 100 pieces ...

Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) recently discovered that chewing gum releases microplastics ...

And if you redecorate your home and sand down the old paintwork, the plastic binders in the paint can release microplastics ...

“Our initial hypothesis was that the synthetic gums would have a lot more microplastics because the base is a type of plastic ...

Researchers tested ten different chewing gum brands, and found no difference between synthetic and natural gum.

Microplastics —tiny plastic bits that can take hundreds of years to break down—are everywhere, from tap water to tea bags, ...

A new study found that chewing gum releases hundreds to thousands of microplastics into saliva. Both synthetic and natural ...